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The native film-maker Alanis Obomsawin’s account of the confrontation between the Mohawk Indians and the police and Canadian army in the summer and autumn of 1990, placing it in the larger context of the...
This film was made at the invitation of the Sirionó Indians living in Ibiato, a small village with 500 inhabitants in the rainforest of northern Bolivia. The Sirionó call themselves ‘Mbía’ (people)....
A portrayal of the Nunak, Colombian rain forest nomads, and their relations with the settlers, some of whom have adoped orphaned Nukak children.
Examines the bloody confrontation that erupted in Canada in 1991, following Quebec government plans to confiscate Mohawk territory.
Looks at the history of the Americas as seen through the eyes of the native Americans. For them the legacy of Columbus has been the destruction of their civilisations, the loss of their lands, repression...
On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s historic voyage, native people met in Ecuador to participate in the First Continental Conference of Indigenous People. Individuals from...
Tells the story of anthropologist Alfred Kreoeber and Ishi, who walked out of the hills of northern California in 1911, and was the last living Yahi Indian. Ishi spent the last four years of his life at the...
Looks at the Huni Kui people who live deep in the Amazonian rainforest in harmony with their environment - a free society who follow the rhythm of the seasons, the rain, the river, the feasts and the farming.
How white Americans and a native American commemorated the 100th anniversary of the battle of Wounded Knee in which Sioux Indians were massacred by the US Army in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Examines the reasons behind the return of cholera to South America in 1991 for the first time in 100 years, and its rapid spread throughout the continent. New economic and political factors are involved, and...
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